Mbakumua Hengari grew up in the 1970s on a farm in southern Africa, in what is today the nation of Namibia. The arid soil around his family's homestead was sandy and grassy, a poor fit for staple ...
From his humble Windhoek workshop, Namibia's leading fashion designer is keeping alive the love for the Herero people's traditional dress with horned headgear, a full-length skirt and a link to German ...
The magnificent traditional costume of the Herero of Namibia, southern Africa, is a stark reminder of the country's tumultuous past. In the late 19th century, the influence of missionaries and traders ...
For a long time, it was "the forgotten genocide". Eclipsed by the Holocaust and Germany's role in it, the mass killings of Herero and Nama people in Namibia from 1904 to 1908 have only recently been ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Namibia's President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah and Vice President Lucia Witboo light a ceremonial candle as the country holds its ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - Skulls of people from the Ovaherero and Nama tribes, which were taken by German colonial forces more than a century ago for ...
Schoolgirls in Windhoek walk past a memorial to victims of Germany's colonial-era massacre in Namibia - Copyright AFP Wakil KOHSAR Schoolgirls in Windhoek walk past a ...